Freedom denied: The crushing of Sri Lanka’s Tamils

A blogger writes…
So, with the war in Sri Lanka now over and the Tamils having been crushed and brought to their knees, I’d like to ask just one question: Are we happy now? With the Tamils’ decades-long struggle for self-determination quashed and their dreams of an independent homeland shattered, are we fully satisfied? Should we give ourselves a pat on the back?

Because there’s no denying that this result is largely due to us here in the freedom-loving West. Specifically, I’m referring to how the governments of Canada, America, Australia, and the European Union all decided to take sides in this civil war—this brutal ethnic civil war.

Not only did we impose an embargo on one side—the Tamil minority—while fully supporting the other – the Sinhalese majority – but we even went as far as to label the Tamils as “terrorists”, while actively working to shut down all of their overseas funding and their ability to arm themselves. Both sides may have clearly been guilty of committing some pretty heinous atrocities, but for some reason we decided that the best thing to do was to condemn the one side, while cheering on and supporting the other.